"Not long ago" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

The install file for Chrome 42 circa April, 2015 was 46MB [1].

That's eleven years ago.

The first ever Chrome release installer was around 20MB.

To say politely, you're not telling the truth.

>this isn't anything different.

Chrome installer from 2015 was 46MB.

Chrome installer from 2026 is ~140MB.

That's a 3X increase over a decade, by a grand total of 100MB.

Then they're adding 4GB to that overnight.

It is, I'd wager, something different.

[1] https://google-chrome.en.uptodown.com/windows/download/14786...

[2] https://google-chrome.en.uptodown.com/windows/download/11608...

To get so upset over this is crazy, no need to be so pedantic. Needs change.

Your 2015 MacBook pro had 8gb ram and 128gb storage, the current equivalent has minimum 24gb ram and 1tb or 2tb. Please explain what you're using all this storage for?? Raw footage or something, well there's some double standards it's just a photo too if this is just a browser. 4gb is immaterial.

11 years in human terms isn't "not long ago".

Nether is "never", which is the time when Chrome was under 30mb installed.

>To get so upset over this is crazy, no need to be so pedantic

Of course. It's just that those small, insignificant details that you are wrong about is your entire point.

>Needs change

What needs to change? Says who? Why?

Software not taking extra gigabytes out of the blue for features I never asked for without notifying or having an option to not do that —

— sorry, this absolutely does not need to change.

>Please explain what you're using all this storage for??

Absolutely none of your business.

I'll tell you what it's not for:

4GB LLM's that one of the browsers on my machine decides to download.

You're welcome.

By your same logic. You should be using chromium at the very minimum.

... and not everyone is running the current equivalent. So, while 4gb may be immaterial _to you_, that is not the case for everyone.